Archeologists dive back into Franklin mystery in Arctic Canada
A Parks Canada research team is en route to the underwater wrecks of Sir John Franklin’s ships in an effort
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Sweden, Norway team up to preserve ancient rock carvings
Sweden and Norway are working together to better preserve thousand-year-old rock carvings, like the ones found on runestones. Freezing water
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Finnish Heritage Agency scouring countryside for ancient monuments
The Finnish Heritage Agency (FHA) is conducting a nationwide field inspection of ancient monuments protected by the government. The Nationally
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Parks Canada battles Arctic ice to explore crumbling Franklin expedition wreck
Parks Canada may be in a race against time to research the HMS Erebus as rough Arctic weather conditions badly
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Indigenous oral history gives archeologists insight into early human life
University of Alaska archeologists are employing Indigenous oral history to gain more insight into what human life was like thousands
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Horses buried with Icelandic Viking nobles were male, ancient DNA shows
Archaeologists in Iceland say they have analyzed DNA evidence to show that male horses were killed and then buried alongside
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Interview – Hair samples from Franklin expedition member show high lead levels
When Sir John Franklin left Britain with two ships and 129 sailors in 1845, it was to be an epic
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‘Amazing’ archeological find in northwest Canada’s melting ice patches: an intact atlatl dart
At first, Jennifer Herkes didn’t realize what had been found — she thought it was a piece of an atlatl
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Rare 1,500-year-old arrowhead found in northwestern Canada
Jennifer Macgillivray had been trying to do a back country hike in Yukon’s Tombstone region for a number of years.
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Canadian researchers count on Siberian reindeer herders to solve archaeological mystery
Two Canadian archaeologists are on their way to a remote part of the Russian Arctic hoping that the traditional knowledge
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Could a giant polar bear skull from Alaska belong to the legendary ‘weasel bear’?
Aboriginal hunters from Arctic Canada have a couple of names for what they say is an extremely rare polar bear that
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How did climate affect ancient wildlife in Arctic Alaska?
For about 1,000 years at the end of the last ice age, the woolly mammoths, steppe bison, ancient horses and
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Four divers charged with raiding ancient shipwreck in Finland
A southern Finland district prosecutor has pressed charges against four men for allegedly stealing from a shipwreck protected by antiquities
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Article claims stone-age Swedes had Siberian ancestors
An article in the science journal Nature published today includes surprising findings about the stone-age people who lived in central
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Study sheds light on peopling of the Arctic
Archaeologists have been arguing for decades about how human beings got to the new world, and genetic research released today
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